[PLUG] Re-doing ssh key phrase and key type

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Nov 2 18:14:31 UTC 2016


On Wed, 2 Nov 2016, David wrote:

> No, 0600 is too restrictive for .ssh. You must have the executable flag on
> the .ssh directory so that the processes may traverse down into that
> directory to access the public keys and config file. Else you are forced
> to use password authentication.
>
> Mode 0600 is required for the files within .ssh, however. (Or at least
> most of them.)

dafr,

   Thanks for clarifying.

Rich



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